Why live frugally?

Want to live lightly on the earth. When you buy less, reuse much of what you do buy and make a lot of what you need from scratch, you reduce your carbon foot print. Oft times frugal is just another word for “green living.”

Love a challenge. Living frugally is a game in our house. We are always on the look out for the next project and regard it as a badge of honor when we can make something ourselves instead of buying it.

Prefer to have MORE money to spend on other things. Like gorgeous but aggravating pure bred cats who insist on sleeping under the duvet, flying stunt planes or cool new lenses for your camera.

Have a quiet yearning to join one of those survivalist groups out in Montana. Don’t worry. Learning self-sufficiency is fun even if you don’t harbor a secret gun fetish.

Have no choice. Some choose frugality and some have it thrust upon them. And you might not be too happy about all the thrusting. But it doesn’t have to be all hard and boring. You’ll be amazed at how well you can live when you are willing to skip a few conveniences and how much fun you can have along the way.